Text Converter for Adults

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Inspiration

I wanted to create an impractical hack that would help the older generation

What it does

It takes in a string that could be sent from a young person and then converts it into a string understandable by older people by expanding acronyms and changing words to a truer meaning, such as from 'yes' to 'no' as all young people get their yes/nos mixed up...

How we built it

Using JavaScript, HTML/CSS and some logic to convert each string

Challenges we ran into

When punctuation was used after a 'word' it would get deleted when expanding or changing the word. This means that I had to use string.replace to only change the acronym rather than just adding the expanded form and disregarding any of the other characters.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It works, and is very efficient!

What we learned

There are lots of acronyms.

What's next for Text Converter for Adults

Conversion back to text speak so older people can effectively communicate with younger people

Built With

• arrays
• css
• dictionaries
• html
• javascript